Julie Stubbs

Professor

Contact details

Brief overview

Julie is a criminal justice scholar. She joined UNSW Law in 2010 from the University of Sydney, where she was Professor of Criminology and previously had been Director of the Institute of Criminology. Prior to that she was a senior researcher with the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research.

Areas of expertise

Her research interests include: justice reinvestment, domestic violence, legal responses to violence against women, homicide, restorative justice, and bail; she also has undertaken research on young offenders, and on cross-cultural issues in criminal justice. More generally she is interested in gender and criminal justice.

She is currently a member of the Board of the Law and Justice Foundation, an adviser to ANROWS on the National Survey of Attitudes to Violence Against Women, and a member of the advisory committee of the Institute of Criminology. She was a member of: the NSW Advisory Panel on Domestic and Family Homicides; the Criminal Justice Sexual Assault Taskforce; and the Department of Corrective Services Institutional Ethics Committee. She has undertaken consultancy research for Legal Aid NSW and several criminal justice agencies.

Memberships

Julie is a member of the International Advisory Board of the British Journal of Criminology , and the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy , and of the Editorial Board for the journals: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, Critical Criminology, and Current Issues in Criminal Justice. She is a member of the Criminal Justice Research Network.

Research supervision

Julie is currently supervising students researching: therapeutic jurisprudence and drug courts; women and welfare fraud; children in out of home care involved in criminal justice; Aboriginal community patrols; victims of crime; bail; sex offender registration and same-sex domestic violence.